Wednesday, 10 February 2016

NigerianEye: “Biafra: Over 1,000 of our members killed since Kanu’s arrest, detention — IPOB” plus 29 more

NigerianEye: “Biafra: Over 1,000 of our members killed since Kanu’s arrest, detention — IPOB” plus 29 more


Biafra: Over 1,000 of our members killed since Kanu’s arrest, detention — IPOB

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 09:32 PM PST

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday warned against the careless killing of its members by security agents, lamenting that over 1,000 members of the group have been publicly and secretly...

IN PICTURES: Buhari arrives Nigeria after his 5-day vacation

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 09:31 PM PST

Nigeria’s economy is collapsing, says PDP

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:58 PM PST

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented that the nation's economy is sliding into a state of collapse. Its Acting National Chairman, Uche Secondus, made the observation at the Godswill...

Fashola to Senate: don’t change our plans

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:54 PM PST

HE Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday urged the Senate Committee on Works not to change the ministry's plans as presented in the 2016 budget proposals. He spoke...

Nigeria seeks $2 Billion Chinese loan to fund budget

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:08 PM PST

Nigeria is seeking a $2billion loan from China to fund the 2016 budget. Finance Minister Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, according to sources, will travel to China next week to negotiate the loan to help fund...

Court extends order against Kashamu’s arrest, detention

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:02 PM PST

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday renewed an interim order which it granted on Monday restraining the arrest or detention of the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District in the...

Medical students, parents protest in Unilag

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:00 PM PST

Medical students in 100 level at the University of Lagos and their parents on Wednesday disrupted academic and business activities in the institution. The protesters, who shut the university's main...

Nigeria must get local government election right – INEC

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:54 PM PST

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the country must get local government elections right. He said this would help to strengthen the...

PDP BoT removes Bello as chairman

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:53 PM PST

The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party met in Abuja on Wednesday against the directive of the acting National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus. Secondus had on Monday asked the...

FG asks CCT to give date for Saraki’s trial

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:51 PM PST

The Federal Government has written to the Code of Conduct Tribunal asking for a date for the commencement of the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on charges of false assets...

Police accuse 17 ABUAD students of attempted bank robbery

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:50 PM PST

Police on Wednesday accused 17 students of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, of an attempt to rob a branch of Wema Bank in the institution. At the hearing on Wednesday, the police prosecutor, Mr....

Anambra hospital performs 5 open heart surgeries

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:46 PM PST

A team of medical doctors based in the United States of America, USA, under the auspices of Global Eagle Foundation, has performed open heart surgeries on five patients at St. Joseph's Hospital,...

Buhari returns to Nigeria after 5-day break

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 05:14 PM PST

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a 5-day break. Aboard a presidential jet, the president touched the ground of Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport, Abuja at about 8: 45 pm on...

Man United job a done deal - Mourinho

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:57 PM PST

Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has told close friends that he will take over as Manchester United manager this summer, according to British tabloids.  The Daily Mail, like the Daily...

Don’t expect much from APC — Lamido

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:50 PM PST

Former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Dr. Sule Lamido, on Wednesday, dismissed President Muhammad Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC-led government change mantra. The former governor...

Valentine: Nigerians are the ‘most romantic’

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:47 PM PST

Nigerians are the most romantic people in Africa, beating out other online customers in global money transfer leader Transfast's Valentine's Day survey. An impressive 80 percent of Nigerian...

Nigeria saves N647.2 million daily from the suspension of fuel subsidy

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:28 PM PST

Nigeria, as at yesterday, is currently saving N647.2 million daily from the suspension of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol. Particularly, at the current price of N86.50 per...

You must fight corruption within ambit of law, NBA tells Buhari

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:18 PM PST

The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Wednesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that his fight against corruption is conducted within the ambit of the law. NBA which is the umbrella body of...

Boko Haram kills more than 60 in Borno IDP camp

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 01:14 PM PST

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in Dikwa town, northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group, a military and...

Nigerian Army arrest two soldiers working with Boko Haram

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:03 AM PST

Nigerian Army has announced the arrest of two soldiers who are Explosive Ordinance Device personnel attached to 143 Battalion believed to be working with the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. The duo were...

Serial pedophile nabbed in Warri after defiling seven under-aged girls

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:09 AM PST

Youths of Okere community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State have apprehended a suspected serial pedophile who ran away from the community several months ago, after defiling seven...

Man files N1 Bilion suit against Nwankwo Kanu

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:04 AM PST

A businessman and a lawyer, Ayoola Gam-Ikon, has asked a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja to order a former Super Eagles captain, Nwankwo Kanu, to pay him N1bn, for what the claimant termed his...

Messi, Ronaldo in new rivalry over world’s most expensive car

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:01 AM PST

Real Madrid's bionic super athlete, Cristiano Ronaldo and the Natural, Lionel Messi have taken their rivalry off the football pitch to the auto world. According to Bleacher Report, Messi might have...

INEC to prosecute under-age voters

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:58 AM PST

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday that it would prosecute under-age voters in Plateau. Dr Godwin Kwanga, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of INEC in the...

Four Catholic nuns killed in Cross River auto crash

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 07:56 AM PST

Four reverend sisters of the Catholic Church were killed in autocrash along the Nkarasi/Alok axis of the Ikom/Ogoja highway in Cross River State on Tuesday. Two other reverend sisters, who were...

YABATECH students protest death of colleague

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 08:03 AM PST

Students of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos are protesting the death of one of their colleagues. The students are unhappy with the attention given to a female student, who fell ill some days...

5 ways to thrill a Nigerian girl

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 06:06 AM PST

By Nkem NdemNigerian girls are one of the most beautiful women in not just Africa, but the world as a whole. Not only are they intelligent and proactive, they have high values and exhibit good...

DPR sealed 100 petrol stations in 5 weeks – official

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 05:38 AM PST

The Warri Zonal Office of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said it sealed about 100 erring petrol stations in the last five weeks in Delta for various offences. Mr Goddey Agusa, the Head of...

Police nab notorious armed robbery gang in Niger

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 05:37 AM PST

A nine man notorious armed robbery bandits terrorizing the Minna-Suleja-Zuba road have been nabbed by the Niger State Police Command. Briefing newsmen in Minna Wednesday, the Niger State...

China confirms first case of Zika virus

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 05:32 AM PST

China has confirmed its first case of the Zika virus in a man who had recently traveled to South America. Hong Kong's Department of Health, said on Wednesday in a statement in Beijing that the...

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